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Agri View: BFTP-Using the Metric System

Dan November 22, 2018 Agri View, Education

If you need to know how many hectare your farm has, or how many kilograms a bale of cotton weighs, would you know the answer? Everett Griner talks about changing agriculture to the metric system of measurement in today’s Agri View. BFTP-Using the Metric System Sponsored ContentNuseed Carinata Covers New GroundJuly 15, 2024CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: …

CLas-Positive Psyllid Sample in Riverside County
An adult Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) sample from a residential property in the San Jacinto Valley area of Riverside County, California, has tested positive for Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), the bacterium that causes huanglongbing (HLB). The positive sample was collected as part of the Multi-Pest Risk Survey on a residential property in Hemet. It was […]
PIECES OF THE PAST: Davie – South Florida’s Historic Citrus Center
By Brenda Eubanks Burnette In the early 1900s, Florida Governor Napoleon Broward (1905–09) persuaded the Legislature to drain the Everglades and finance a canal system by selling off large blocks of land for $2 per acre. Once drained, the area housed rich fertile soil and, in 1906, millionaire R.P. Davie bought almost 28,000 acres. By […]

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